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United Parcel Service Chief Marketing Officer Kevin Warren toured the Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurship last year. He described it in one way — impressive.

He felt the history in the hallways of Herman J. Russell, the center’s namesake who founded one of the largest minority-owned businesses in the U.S in the 1950s. Energy coursed through the building’s layout of conference rooms, workspaces and lounges.

“It really felt like you were in Silicon Valley,” Warren said. “Those creative spaces drive innovation.”

UPS (NYSE: UPS) is the latest corporate giant to support RICE, a business incubator supporting Black entrepreneurs with mentorship, community and workspace. Financial technology company Fiserv Inc. (Nasdaq: FISV), the Atlanta Hawks basketball team and fast-food franchise Chick-fil-A have also put dollars behind the incubator.

One UPS driver had proven that a little kindness goes a long way.

After taking the time to congratulate a recent customer on her newborn son, the universe rewarded Dallen Harrell – in the form of a promotion.

It all started when Dallen made a delivery near Jessica’s family home, where she had put out an ‘It’s a Boy’ stork lawn sign after her son’s birth.

Later that month Dallen returned to Jessica’s house and, remembering the stork, left a sweet message on her doorbell camera.

“If this is the ‘It’s a Boy’ house… I hope all is going well with your newborn,” Dallen said, before wishing the family a happy holidays.

A UPS warehouse in Rochester, Minnesota caught fire Saturday night after several vehicles were burning nearby, the city’s fire department says.

The initial call of the fire came in around 10:48 p.m. Saturday. When the first fire engine arrived, firefighters found “multiple trucks parked at a loading dock on the north end of the building that were on fire with smoke coming from the building,” the news release states.

The Rochester Fire Department says crews were able to quickly stop the fire from spreading damage into the UPS Customer Center by 11:42 p.m. The fire was contained except for some hot spots in trucks from packages that were still smoldering, according to Rochester Fire Captain Ben Davis. The last fire unit left the scene just after 2 a.m. Sunday.

A 33,000-square-foot United Parcel Service distribution center expected to employ about 100 people is under construction in Pevely.

The construction site is at 8921 Weier Road near the Mr. Fuel Travel Center south of Hwy. Z.

“At this time, the facility is scheduled to open around the end of 2022, beginning of 2023,” UPS spokeswoman Karen Tomaszewski Hill said Tuesday in a written statement. She said the location was chosen because of growth in the region.